Xara Extreme Pro’s toolset pitches the software at multi-tasking creatives. It’s primarily a vector-based graphics application, though it does include a photo editor, bitmap support, and conversion tools.

Sales of Nintendo's Wii games console hit 372,000 units over its first two days on the market in Japan, according to figures from Enterbrain. The console is released in Europe tomorrow. Enterbrain publishes local gaming magazine Famitsu and its figures are generally regarded in the gaming industry as reliable.

Nintendo is taking a close look at the wrist-strap on the controller for its Wii console after several reports on the Internet about straps breaking, causing the controller to fly out of the hands of users, its president said Thursday.

Listed on the official Nintendo Wii site, out of nine first-party Nintendo games only two titles, Wii Sports and Mario Strikers Charged, are offering 4-player multiplay. The other seven games are limited to one or two players only.

Nintendo has announced the launch date and price point for the Nintendo DS, with the new dual-screened handheld hitting retailers in the US on November 21 for the price of $149.99 (around £85) -- lower than what many retailers and analysts speculated.

This drawing and illustration application has been in a crisis of identity recently. In the last couple of years it’s been called eveything from Corel Xara to Webster. This upgrade bears the name Xara X1.

Games are going small in a big way, with both Sony and Nintendo announcing powerful new handheld gaming devices on the eve of the Electronic Entertainment Expo here this week. Sony fired the first shot in its battle with Nintendo's popular Game Boy Advance in the portable gaming arena by unveiling specs for the PSP.

Nintendo has announced that its upcoming handheld system Nintendo DS has garnered the support of some of the largest game publishers worldwide, including Atari, THQ, Electronic Arts, Activision, Atari, Ubisoft, Majesco, Capcom, Sega, Konami, Hudson Soft, Namco, Bandai, Koei, and Square Enix.